Lexington Books
Pages: 208
Trim: 6½ x 9¼
978-0-7391-0747-8 • Hardback • August 2004 • $124.00 • (£95.00)
978-0-7391-2537-3 • Paperback • October 2007 • $56.99 • (£44.00)
978-0-7391-5516-5 • eBook • August 2004 • $54.00 • (£42.00)
Subjects: Medical / General,
Medical / Clinical Medicine,
Medical / Diseases,
Medical / History,
Medical / Ethics,
Medical / Pediatrics,
Medical / Mental Health,
Medical / Psychiatry / General,
Medical / Psychiatry / Child & Adolescent,
Medical / Research,
Social Science / General,
Social Science / Anthropology / General,
Social Science / Research,
Social Science / Sociology / General,
Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family
Adam Rafalovich is assistant professor of sociology at Texas Tech University.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Before We Called it ADHD: Idiocy, Imbecility and Encephalitis Lethargica
Chapter 3 Psychodynamic versus Neurological Perspectives: Clinicians Discuss DSM IV and the Essences of ADHD
Chapter 4 Clinicians as the Mediators of ADHD Suspicion and Treatment
Chapter 5 The Realm of Semiformal Suspicion: Framing ADHD Children in the Classroom
Chapter 6 Responding to ADHD: School Curricula, Simplified Assignments, and Gender
Chapter 7 Parent Accounts: How Trouble Becomes ADHD
Chapter 8 Developing Informal Expertise: How Parents Negotiate the Meaning of ADHD
Highly recommended.
— Choice Reviews
Adam Rafalovich's Framing ADHD Children offers and effective example of how real-life narratives provide richness and multidimensionality to a topic, broadening his original hypothesis about attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) from the specific to the general. This provocative book has a place on the shelf of doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, teachers, and parents.
— Psychiatric Services
This book artfully illuminates the controversial ADHD diagnosis by linking cultural discourses to lived experiences. It combines careful historical scholarship, insightful institutional analysis, and compelling interview materials. As such, it offers a powerful model for learning just how multiple personal troubles are transformed into emotional disorders. Along with Rafalovich's sociological colleagues, this book deserves to reach those who struggle daily to sort out the ambiguities surrounding proliferating drug treatments for a range of life difficulties.
— David A. Karp, Boston College